Prosecutorial Nonenforcement and Residual Criminalization

Plea Bargaining and Prosecutorial Discretion

Some perspectives on criminalization.

In recently published articles, there has been an underemphasis on the role serious mental illness (SMI) plays in causing persons to be in the criminal justice system. Increasing attention has been paid to other factors, including criminogenic needs. While these needs may be present and contribute to criminal behavior, persons with SMI who are at greatest risk of criminalization are those who a...

Criminalization of the mentally ill.

In the great world of “they sayers,” they say that the more things change, the more things stay the same. Over a decade ago, Peplau (1994), affectionately known as the mother of psychiatric nursing, observed that the first great psychiatric revolution, and the beginning of contemporary psychiatric nursing, occurred when patients were moved from jails to asylums, and from asylums to hospitals. R...

Criminalization of HIV Transmission

________________________________________________________ Rabbi Shalom C Spira ([email protected].) is a research assistant at the McGill University AIDS Centre in the Jewish General Hospital of Montreal, Quebec. Dr. Mark A Wainberg (corresponding author, [email protected]) is the director of the McGill University AIDS Centre, and a professor of medicine at McGill University. Cri...

Controlling Prosecutorial Discretion in Germany